Research Highlight Archives | Materials Science and Engineering

“Deformation-Driven Dynamic Precipitation in Mg-Al alloys” by Suhas Eswarappa Prameela wins “Best Poster Award” at the 2019 Mach Conference

April 16, 2019

Suhas Eswarappa Prameela was awarded the best poster award at this years 2019 Mach Conference in Annapolis Maryland. Suhas’s research in Tim Weihs’ lab is focused on developing better lightweight armor materials for the US Army. Conventional heat treatment of Magnesium alloys causes long, thin intermetallic particles to precipitate throughout the alloy. These particles are […]

Crossing Boundaries: Characterizing Polycrystalline Materials

July 20, 2016

A collaborative effort between researchers in the United States and Italy has resulted in a novel technique to rapidly assess the boundaries between grains in polycrystalline materials.

Johns Hopkins engineers develop tool to quickly calculate crystal properties

April 15, 2016

Look closely enough and you’ll find crystals in a number of technologies and devices, including batteries, medical implants, and semiconductors. Understanding the properties of crystalline materials is vital to continued advancement, but often the amount of time and money needed to analyze these properties can have a negative impact on new developments.

New method yields knowledge of membrane protein interactions, anti-cancer targets

March 18, 2016

Johns Hopkins engineers have utilized a new method to probe the stoichiometry and stability of protein complexes in biological membranes.

A New Twist on Receptor Signaling

January 4, 2016

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found a direct, significant correlation between structure and activation for FGF receptors in response to FGF ligands. Their findings have been reported in the January 2016 issue of Nature Communications.

From Nanocrystals to Earthquakes, Solid Materials Share Similar Failure Characteristics

November 23, 2015

An extensive study by an interdisciplinary research group suggests that the deformation properties of nanocrystals are not much different from those of the Earth’s crust.